ugh i hate waking up early. i can do it, its fine, but if i have the choice… i just want to sleep. i wake up for work everyday around 6am, and am at work at 730. if i could sleep in till 7, 730…. i would be SO so happy. sigh. between waking up for work and waking up for running, i never get to sleep in anymore!!

Since being sick for over a week I’m now having trouble getting up early enough to run more than 4 or 5 miles and this has never been the case! I’m jealous of your snow though can’t believe I’m saying it, but the 60 degrees we’re having here is just way too warm!

I generally wake up pretty early. The only times I seem to have a problem is when I know I HAVE to get up early. Then I can’t sleep well the night before, it’s annoying.

It’s foggy and warm, weird weather for NY in December. But after the crazy cold of the last few years I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts. (and I generally like the cold. marathon training when it was 17 degrees out kind of took its toll on me).

Waking up difficulty level is usually pretty proportional to how much sleep I got the night before. However, my husband is insane – I’ve had entire conversations with him in the morning before coffee that he has no recollection of later. It’s functioning on a zombie level.

I love all the pics from the weekend – Brooke doing gymnastics etc. but i think it’s time for the inevitable, Janae. Time for what? Time to change the header on your blog. You no longer have an HRG Baby. Brooke is now a true HRG – Girl No. 2 :-)
Food for thought.

I definitely agree that getting up in the winter is so much harder! I was on such a great roll getting up to run before work in the spring in summer, but now it’s impossible. I don’t get it! I hope you achieved your goal of washing your hair..sometimes for me that is just an impossible goal to reach. So much effort..

Stephanie

Just know that my alarm is going off at the same moment in the central time zone. I’ve been at it for about a year, too… it’s the only way I can get my runs in and still manage a full-time job and family time, so it’s worth it. :)

Brenda

I’ve heard you talk about the fact that you don’t wash your hair enough before, and maybe you have already answered this in a different post…but what do you do with your hair on a daily basis? I can’t stand the texture of my hair if I don’t wash it daily which I know is TERRIBLE, I try to every other day and tried washing with apple cider vinegar for awhile, but I just don’t like how my hair looks and haven’t figured out a trick/secret….your hair always looks phenomenal even if its in a bun.
Side note, I thought of you today on my run, it was supposed to just be an easy 3 miles, but for some reason my legs felt like cinder blocks so it might as well have been a marathon! I mentally struggled through it but kept saying this is just ridiculous, Janae did this for 26.2! I do think your superwoman :)

WAY to go Brenda for finishing up your run. You are amazing. Cinder block legs are NO joke. About the hair… I think different types of hair require washing it more/less. I usually just blow dry it after a workout if it gets sweaty (that sounds worse than it is ha). You are seriously so nice but it really is in a ponytail or bun most of the time ha to hide the fact I haven’t washed it in a few days!

Caroline

You two are so freakin adorable. Your pics always put the hugest smile on my face!

This morning, my yoga teacher was stuck in traffic so I ended up teaching the vinyasa class with about 15 minutes notice. It wasn’t extremely terrifying or anything (does the sarcasm come through?). Then for the next class (where I was able to thankfully practice), we were BLINDFOLDED! Well, we used headbands to cover our eyes. It was insane! We truly needed to focus to stay balanced and aligned.

I’m an early riser. I prefer to run early before anything else gets in the way.

I’m definitely an earlier riser. I worked at a job where I had to be there at 5 am, and during the job interview I was asked if I was a morning person. It wouldn’t have been much fun to work with someone who wasn’t!

100% agree that it is way much harder in colder months to get out of bed! Heck, we don’t even have winters here in South Georgia like where you are , but if temperature gets below 55, I AM STAYING IN BED!!! LOL!!! Or at least struggling to get out of bed!!!!

Hmmmm, think I may need to check out that sweat shirt….. but more so, I LOVE your slippers!!!!!!!!! Those look comfortable!!!!!

Ah I want to be in that snow it looks so fun! It’s finally starting to cool down here in Tennessee and this morning was the hardest in a while to get up! Especially since I’m not running in the morning right now so I technically don’t haaaaave to right away!

That was such a great article thank you so much for sharing :) I’d also love for you to read the post I recently wrote on why I don’t cut weight during marathon training, but I know you are one busy lady so if you don’t have time, I understand!

getting up early is a daily struggle. each morning when the alarm goes off I think “orrrrr I could just sleep in”. sleep usually wins! tomorrow I’m aiming for a 5:45 am spin class…. let’s see how this goes (hint: if I don’t comment tomorrow it’s because I didn’t go. or I’m still sleeping muahahah)

Bailey

it has been VERY hard for me to get out of bed lately, but it is also finals week ;D

just gotta brag a little for a second, a teammate/mutual friend of mine just won the NATIONAL high school cross country championships…our school is just a little stoked to say the least :) we had him and another girl from our county win the girls race as well, crazy to think i’m lucky enough to run in the best high school running county in the nation D:

Ugh I had such a hard time getting out of bed this morning. It was cold and rainy and dark and I wanted to stay curled up in my warm bed all day. And now I just ended the day watching Adele Live in NYC and I’m feeling all the feels and want to eat ice cream, get back in bed, and cry. Happy Monday!

Getting up in the winter is so much harder for me because I hate getting out of my warm bed, but getting up early in general isn’t easy ha! Brooke is seriously the cutest and I love how big her smile is in all of these pictures. :)

I used to get up around 5:15 every morning while I was going into an office. Ever since I started traveling for work/working from home, it’s SO much harder to keep that early rise schedule. My body wants to sleep in and getting up too many hours before the sun feels so wrong!

I have to get up in the 4am for work and it never gets easier. Everyday it takes me a few hours to finally feel awake. I think it would help if I liked to go to bed early, but it is hard for me to be in bed by 8pm. I also think it would help if I woke up around the same time on the weekend (that will not happen) to make the week days easier, but I like my sleep!